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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Barbary"”.
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… held as “white slaves” in the North African “Barbary States.” Biographies of American sailors are typically of distinguished and long-serving naval officers, not of merchant sailors who averaged just 5-10 years at sea. The whole lives of the three subjects of this dissertation therefore …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… held as “white slaves” in the North African “Barbary States.” Biographies of American sailors are typically of distinguished and long-serving naval officers, not of merchant sailors who averaged just 5-10 years at sea. The whole lives of the three subjects of this dissertation therefore …
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Barbary Pirates: Thomas Jefferson, William Eaton, and the Evolution of U.S. Diplomacy in the Mediterranean
<p>This study analyzes U.S. relations with the Barbary States from 1784 to 1805. After the American Revolution, the young nation found its commerce menaced in the Mediterranean by North African pirates sponsored by the rulers of Morocco, Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli. As the U.S. sought to find a …
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“Emancipation from that Degrading Yoke”: Thomas Jefferson, William Eaton and “Barbary Piracy” from 1784 to 1805
<p> <p>The following essay examines the image of "Barbary piracy" created by two prominent political figures, Thomas Jefferson and William Eaton, and by the American public from 1784 to 1805, and how those images shaped the policy of the American-Barbary War. Eaton‟s Orientalist approach to …
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Renegades, Slaves, and Pirates: the Representation of Mediterranean Corsair Wars and Barbary in early modern Western Literature and Culture
… the North African region – known at the time as “Barbary” – giving shape to one of the “Great Fears” of pre-modern Europe. However, besides the anxiety, misapprehensions, and prejudice, corso’s geographical and cultural proximity also sparked significant intercultural and interreligious …
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Current Status of Falcon Populations in Saudi Arabia
… we surveyed historic and active nest sites of Barbary (Falco pelegrinoides pelegrinoides) and Lanner (F. biarmicus) Falcons in Saudi Arabia. Field and questionnaire surveys were conducted and personal contact with falconers was made to document the current distribution and price changes for …
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Jeffersonianism and 19th Century American Maritime Defense Policy.
… for a small naval force capable of engaging the Barbary pirates and other small similar forces. For protection of the nation and commerce, they wanted a strictly defensive strategy developed around coastal gunboats and harbor fortifications. This research will analyze the naval aspect of this …
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The System of Lazzaretti in the Early Modern Mediterranean
… and, above all, with the Ottoman Levant and the Barbary Coast, where plague was considered endemic. While specific quarantine locations and geographical perspectives have been investigated in the past, this dissertation places the study of the transnational system of lazzaretti and quarantine at …
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The Hip and Lower Limb Movement Screen: Is it a valid tool to assess movement control in Royal Marines
There are several movement screens used in military and sporting populations, utilised with the intention of providing information about potentially harmful movement patterns. There remains a lack of research into the validity of many of these, and in particular a lack of research into their …
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Consumers' attitudes of fast food restaurants in hotels
… at three McDonald's which are located at Barbary Coast, Circus Circus, and Fitzgeralds and Burger King which is at Riviera hotel from April 27 through May 12 of 1993; The results of data analysis show that customers of in-hotel fast food restaurants were mostly satisfied with food, …
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Eco-Otherness and Interconnectedness: Re-thinking Land, Trees, and Nonhuman Agency in Palestinian and North African Literature
… as a guardian of the desert animal, the waddan (Barbary sheep), resisting its exploitation and embodying a spiritual and ecological ethos that counters extractivist logics. In Gold Dust, the camel assumes a profound role as a companion and symbol of survival, while in The Tent, the mare …
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Trace metals in upper Susquehanna River ecosystem: environmental distribution, urban impacts, and interaction with sediment materials
<p>Environmental samples from the Upper Susquehanna River Basin [river water (RW) and bottom sediments, municipal wastewaters and sewage sludge, algae and fish] were collected and analyzed for the following Trace Metals (TMs), as appropriate: Pb, Cd, Co, Ni, Cr, Cu, Zn, and total and inorganic Hg. …